argo-cd/docs/user-guide/application_sources.md

Tools

Production

Argo CD supports several different ways in which Kubernetes manifests can be defined:

• Kustomize applications
• Helm charts
• A directory of YAML, JSON, or Jsonnet manifests.
• Any custom config management tool configured as a config management plugin

Development

Argo CD also supports uploading local manifests directly. Since this is an anti-pattern of the GitOps paradigm, this should only be done for development purposes. A user with an override permission is required to upload manifests locally (typically an admin). All of the different Kubernetes deployment tools above are supported. To upload a local application:

$ argocd app sync APPNAME --local /path/to/dir/